A dataset containing five example pedigrees.
data(EgPeds)A data frame with 65 rows and 14 variables:
Family identification number
Individual identification number
Gender identification variable: sex = 0 for males, and sex = 1 females.
Identification number of father
Identification number of mother
Affection status: affected = TRUE if individual has developed lymphoid cancer, and FALSE otherwise.
Paternally inherited allele at the assumed disease locus: DA1 = 1 if rare variant is present, and 0 otherwise.
Maternally inherited allele at the assumed disease locus: DA2 = 1 if rare variant is present, and 0 otherwise.
Year of birth
Year of disease onset, when applicable.
Year of death, when applicable.
The subject's relative-risk of disease
Availability status, available = TRUE if the individual is unavailable, and FALSE 1 otherwise
The subject's generation number relative to the founder who introduced the rare variant. That is, the founder who introduced the rare variant will have Gen = 1, his or her offspring will have Gen = 2, etc.
Proband identification variable, proband = TRUE if the individual is the proband, and FALSE otherwise.